I think I may have the youngest member of PETA living in my home.
As we speak I am browning hamburger for Taco Salad. Since Cindy and Bobby are the only two home at the moment I was letting them hand me the vegetables to cut up. Somewhere in between the lettuce and tomato Bobby looked into the skillet on the stove and asked what "that" was. I told him it was hamburger...I said "It's a cow." WHAT!! The boy went ballistic. "Why are we eating a cow?" "Who killed that cow?" "Farmer's are supposed to take care of the cows, not kill them!" And my personal favorite..."Cows stink, but people shouldn't kill them!" Oh the mind of a five year old.
I tried to explain to Bobby that cows make up the hamburgers he eats at Burger King. That I put it in our Spaghetti, "Cowboy Stuff" and Chili. I told him that steak was cow, hotdogs were pigs and all that chicken we eat REALLY is chicken. I honestly thought I would win him over on the Burger King thing. Nope...the child has sworn off all meat (including his precious hotdogs).
So now I suppose I will be dishing out a bowl of taco salad minus the taco. And the veggie burger patties that I bought for Jaz when she eats over here, will now be put to good use on Bobby.
Hmmmmm. Jaz would be proud. And farmer's everywhere shed a tear for another child lost.
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OH MY GOD!!! Randi get this child to a doctor asap. In all my recollections there is not a vegetarian in this family. How does he expect to survive on just-shudder- those? Granted he is only 5 and is a work in progress but please don't let it get to the others. The little darlings will surely starve. As for me and my house we shall eat lots of meat as it takes alot to maintain my figure. Carry on sweet grand daughter.
He is five...I figure it will only last for about 5 minutes.
Don't worry though, veggie burgers are good too...I love them on toasted english muffins with some cheddar and ketchup.
Good thing he wasn't around when we had the farm. But maybe that would have been a good thing, especially when we had to kill those 200 chickens. And some of the cows were called Burger. Or how about the time we raised the pig "Monsiour Piggie"
Ahhh good memories!!
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AF or Navy? I'm Army.
Good luck with the Meat thing . . . I'm betting that the 1st "post-game" pig-out at BK will cause him to re-think this "PETA/Veggie" thing. LOL
BTW - from where is this coming? I'd look into how a 5 yr old comes by this kind of info!
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